BR interference with catcher fielding bunt

[GaryBarrentine]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Gary, for you, this is a dumb comment.

Personal attack right off the bat, this should be good!

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

You have access to everything an umpire has

Really, then why does the rule book I get with my registration not have the rule exception you have spoken of?

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

it just isn't wrapped up with a bow on it.

Thats right I have to go and buy another rule book with the umpires manual in it.

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

And to be quite honest, even those who read the rule book, most coaches don't have a clue.

I know a few umpires that don't have a clue.

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Rant on!

Oh boy, here we go!!!!

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

The coaches and players should play the game by the rules, period.!

How can they, if the rule books they are given to use are incomplete?

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

If you want interpretations, start going to some clinics, exclamation point!

Why, I should be able to get them from the rule book myself.

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

We are not your babysitters

No, but you make yourself into one when you are the only one privey to certain rule exceptions, because they are only listed in the umpires manual!

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

my point as to it becoming strategy

Is irrellavent. If a strategy is developed from a rules clarification or interpretation, so what?

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Steve M. what do you think your buddy from Ohio would try to do with something like this if he actually read the book including the umpire's manual?

Why should his buddy have to read the umpires manual for an exception to a rule?

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Apparently, somewhere along the way, some coaches got the idea that "working the umpire" is part of the game and it is never personal. Well, guess what? When we tell you to leave the park, it isn't personal, you deserved it.

We are not there to be "worked". We are there to apply the rules as instructed, not to be a substitute for your wife when you feel that badgering someone is the best offense.

Ahhh, now there was the real reason for the rant!!!

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

What the umpires are discussing here is direction of how to handle a certain situation.

A situation that has an exception that is not availiable to all parties!

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

If you want to call the book, fine.

Until the exception is listed in the rules or POE this is how it should be.

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Coaching to the rules instead of the game is a disservice to the players, team and the game itself.

Without the rules you have no valid game, without a valid game there is nothing to coach to, so the only way to coach is to the rules!

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Rant off!

Ooooh, finished so soon!

There should be only one rule book, with the rules, all exceptions, all notes, and all interpreatations. This way everyone is on the same ground when it comes to the rules!

GaryB